“The View” co-host Joy Behar extended an unlikely invitation Friday to her longtime political foe President Donald Trump, saying she would welcome him back to the daytime talk show despite suggesting that he is “not long for this world.”
Behar, who has said she wants her legacy to include helping remove Trump from office, reflected on her decades-long history with the president during an interview with New York Magazine.
“I’d love Donald Trump to take the heat,” said the longtime Trump critic.
“You know Trump is not long for this world. He seems ill. He does not seem like he’s well,” Behar added.
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A White House spokesperson responded to Behar’s comments about Trump’s well-being in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“‘Joyless’ Behar is an extremely unlikeable, talentless hack with a poorly rated TV show who clearly suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the statement said.
“I lose braincells every single time I have the displeasure of hearing her speak,” the spokesperson continued.
Behar’s comments mark the latest instance in which “The View” co-host has publicly questioned Trump’s health.
Last month, she argued that the media does not scrutinize Trump’s health to the same degree it scrutinized former President Joe Biden’s.
Despite their bitter political divide today, Behar and Trump share a history from long before his political career.
Trump made more than a dozen appearances on “The View” before he was president and Behar even attended his wedding to Marla Maples at The Plaza Hotel in 1993.
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Behar said Trump’s humor has changed significantly since she knew him as a New York celebrity decades ago.
“I knew him when he was just an annoying New York figure,” she said. “Back then, he had a sense of humor that was not as bizarre as it is now. Now his sense of humor is making fun of handicapped people.”
“The View” co-host recalled her earlier interactions with Trump, including a time in which she compared Trump to Woody Allen after he said that he would date his daughter Ivanka if they were not related.
“He actually thought that was funny,” Behar said.
Behar has said that Trump is “much more dangerous” now than he was during his first term and recently urged Americans to call on their members of Congress to invoke the 25th Amendment against him because she believes he is “destroying the United States of America.”